Samiksha Jaiswal (Editor)

VMware Infrastructure

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Developer(s)
  
VMware, Inc.

Type
  
Hypervisor

Platform
  
x86-compatible

License
  
Proprietary

Stable release
  
3.5 Update 4 / March 30, 2009; 7 years ago (2009-03-30)

Development status
  
renamed to VMware vSphere

VMware Infrastructure (VI) was a software suite of hardware virtualization products from VMware (a division of Dell EMC).

Contents

Components

The suite included:

  • VMware ESX Server version 3
  • VMware ESXi version 3.x
  • VMware vCenter version 2 (formally VMware VirtualCenter)
  • Virtual SMP (which allows a guest operating system to "see" up to four CPUs in the virtual machine).

    • Users can supplement this software bundle by purchasing optional products, such as VMotion, as well as distributed services such as high availability (HA), distributed resource scheduler (DRS), or consolidated backup.

    VMware Inc. released VMware Infrastructure 3 in June 2006. The suite came in three "editions": Starter, Standard and Enterprise.

    Limitations

    Known limitations in VMware Infrastructure 3 may constrain the design of data centers:

    As of June 2008 limitations in VMware Infrastructure version 3.5 included the following:

  • Guest system maximum RAM: 64 GB
  • Number of guest CPUs: 4
  • Number of hosts in an HA cluster: 32
  • Number of hosts in a DRS cluster: 32
  • Size of RAM per server: 256 GB
  • Number of hosts managed by Virtual Center Server: 200
  • Number of virtual machines managed by Virtual Center Server: 2000

    • No limitations were, for example, volume size of 64 TB with no more than 6 SCSI controllers per virtual machine; maximum number of remote consoles to a virtual machine is 10.

    It is also not possible to connect Fibre Channel tape-drives, which hinders the ability to do backups using these drives.

    Renaming

    VMware renamed their product VMware vSphere for release 4, and marketed it for cloud computing.

    References

    VMware Infrastructure Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA